Don't serve the old! Howard 14+16+3 but Beijing time on February 26, 2022, the Los Angeles derby began to compete, both sides are full of injuries, the core of the Clippers side Of Leonard and George are missing due to injury, and the Lakers side is missing Anthony Davis! From the start of the game, the dominant player was the Los Angeles Clippers, who scored 57 points in the half, 10 points ahead of the Lakers. However, the game entered the third quarter of the storm, the Lakers used a one-session game to reverse the score, and the third quarter ended with a 6-point lead over the opponent! But the Clippers were again dominant in the fourth quarter, and in the end they beat the Lakers 105:102
Although the Lakers lacked Anthony Davis, the core of the interior, this game welcomed back the strongest old Warcraft Dwight Howard! Howard started in this game, played 26 minutes and 14 seconds, shot 5 of 11 from the field, got 14 points, 16 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 3 blocks, and was the best player in the Lakers!
At the beginning of the first quarter of the game, Howard played 9 minutes and got a comprehensive stat of 8 points, 9 rebounds, 1 assist and 2 blocks, completely crushing the Clippers' interior line. In the second quarter he played 5 minutes and got 6 points, 2 rebounds, 1 steal and 1 block! He had 14 points and 11 rebounds in the half, and for the first time in the last four years, he had a double-double at halftime! In the third quarter that followed, he made very limited shots, didn't score, and got 5 rebounds. He only got to 2 minutes in the fourth quarter and didn't get any stats!
Although he played extremely well in the first half, Howard's physical problems in the second half were exposed, and as a 36-year-old interior veteran, he really couldn't stand it, and he didn't get much time in the last quarter!
But for a veteran like Howard, it is not easy to give the team a very big help in the first half, and in the absence of Davis, the Lakers can welcome Howard to play so well, which is already an unexpected surprise! Now what the team needs to do is how to deploy Howard's physical fitness during Davis' time off due to injury, so that their interior line is not so disadvantaged! In the event of exhaustion of physical energy, how to allocate the physical strength of the Warcraft?
